Chapter Summaries

Su Bai’s Second True Self killed the Eighth Divine General, declared “Wu Wushuang” his disciple, and gave him the name Su Qingyun. The world’s belief in Su Qingyun strengthened his Way of Deception, and the Heavenly Dao Ranking placed him fourteenth, above Di Cang.

• Su Bai’s Second True Self killed the Eighth Divine General after he begged for mercy.
• Su Bai’s Second True Self declared “Wu Wushuang” his disciple and promised that anyone who harmed him would face the same fate.
• Su Bai’s Second True Self named his disciple Su Qingyun and announced that he would enter the Heaven’s Pride Tournament in three days.
• The experts believed Su Qingyun was a prodigy distinct from “Wu Wushuang,” strengthening his Way of Deception and drawing recognition from the Heavenly Dao Stele.
• Su Qingyun climbed the Heavenly Dao Ranking to fourteenth place, surpassing Di Cang.

Su Qingyun rose to fourteenth on the Heavenly Dao Ranking, then realized the name his flaming senior had given him connected him to his lost past. He accepted the name as his own and formally acknowledged the senior as his Master.

• Su Qingyun appeared in fourteenth place on the Heavenly Dao Ranking, behind the mysterious thirteen, and his Way of Deception reached a higher realm.
• Su Qingyun knelt before the flaming figure and thanked him, calling him Master.
• Su Qingyun realized that his name recalled Azure Cloud Town and the little beggar he had once been.
• Su Qingyun remembered Old Beggar and True Person Yun He, and understood that the name honored both his origins and his past.
• Su Qingyun embraced his new name and bowed to the flaming figure, saying, "Disciple pays respects to Master!"

Su Bai’s Second True Self took Su Qingyun away after revealing himself as the Sixth Epoch Flame Taboo who would protect his new disciple. He brought Su Qingyun back to the Azure Cloud Sect in the Lower Realm, where he promised that Su Qingyun would no longer be alone.

• Su Bai’s Second True Self took Su Qingyun away, leaving witnesses stunned that Su Qingyun had a Sixth Epoch Taboo as his master.
• The onlookers and Su Bai’s disciples discussed how fiercely Su Bai had defended Su Qingyun and given him a recognized identity.
• Su Bai’s Second True Self carried Su Qingyun across realms and spatial barriers until they reached a Lower Realm.
• Su Qingyun recognized the familiar spiritual qi and buildings of the Azure Cloud Sect, where True Person Yun He had lived.
• Su Bai told Su Qingyun that his Dao had destined him to be alone, but that from then on he would no longer be alone.

Su Qingyun returned to the Azure Cloud Sect and was overcome by memories of his master, True Person Yun He, who had sacrificed himself to save him from heavenly punishment. As Su Bai surveyed the affiliated Greater Realm, he discovered that despite its uninterrupted civilization and inheritance, it had produced far fewer powerful cultivators than the realm of the Heavenly Dao Sect.

• Su Qingyun stood before the Azure Cloud Sect and remembered his nameless childhood, his entry into the sect, and True Person Yun He’s kindness.
• Su Qingyun recalled how True Person Yun He shielded him from heavenly punishment, sacrificing his body and scattering his soul.
• Su Bai’s Second True Self watched Su Qingyun grieve while Su Bai spread his divine sense across the entire Greater Realm and examined its past.
• Su Bai found that the realm had only several thousand Immortal Lords and produced one Immortal Venerable roughly every hundred million years.
• Su Bai compared the realm’s long, unbroken civilization with the Heavenly Dao Sect’s former world and found that it had produced only five Immortal Kings and fewer than a hundred Immortal Venerables.

Su Bai realized that the Epoch Calamities had driven his homeworld’s inhabitants to become stronger, and he resolved to uncover the secrets behind them. After bringing Su Qingyun back to his roots and affirming his identity, Su Bai promised to revive True Person Yun He despite the Heavenly Dao’s opposition.

• Su Bai concluded that Epoch Calamities had pressured his homeworld’s people to grow stronger and wondered who had created the Epoch Puppet and why.
• Su Bai quietly accompanied Su Qingyun as he revisited the place where he had grown up.
• Su Bai reminded Su Qingyun that he was rooted in Azure Cloud Town and the Azure Cloud Sect, and that his true identity was Su Qingyun.
• Su Qingyun wept, kowtowed to Su Bai, and solemnly declared that he would remember his name.
• Su Bai promised to revive True Person Yun He, and Su Qingyun warned that the Heavenly Dao had stopped his own attempt.
• Su Bai declared that the Heavenly Dao could not control him.

Su Bai's Second True Self defied the Greater Realm's Heavenly Dao to retrieve True Person Yun He's remnant soul from the River of Time. His attempt brought down punishment from the Eternal Immortal Realm Heavenly Dao, leaving the two local Immortal Kings terrified by his power.

• Su Qingyun recalled how his past attempts to revive True Person Yun He had failed against the Greater Realm's Heavenly Dao.
• Su Bai's Second True Self reached into the River of Time as the Greater Realm's Heavenly Dao struck him with black lightning.
• Su Bai's Second True Self found the moment True Person Yun He died and lifted his nearly dispersed remnant soul from the River of Time.
• The Eternal Immortal Realm Heavenly Dao opened a rift and sent down Wujin golden light to punish Su Bai's Second True Self.
• The two Immortal Kings who had remained in the Greater Realm realized a higher realm's Heavenly Dao had intervened and feared the power of Su Bai's Second True Self.

Su Bai's Second True Self defied the Eternal Immortal Realm Heavenly Dao to restore True Person Yun He, and the Heavenly Dao backed down. True Person Yun He returned to life as a True Immortal and reunited with Su Qingyun.

• The Eternal Immortal Realm Heavenly Dao attacked Su Bai's Second True Self, but Su Bai's overwhelming will made it retreat.
• Two hidden Immortal Kings knelt before Su Bai after witnessing him force the Heavenly Dao to yield.
• Su Bai used Taboo Origin power to rebuild True Person Yun He's soul and body, raising him to True Immortal.
• True Person Yun He awoke and recognized Su Qingyun, who rushed to him and wept.
• True Person Yun He comforted Su Qingyun by stroking his head as they reunited.

Su Qingyun reunited with the resurrected True Person Yun He and brought him back to the Azure Cloud Sect, which had grown into a powerful Golden Immortal-level sect. He showed Yun He the preserved old sect grounds and cave abode, leaving them together among memories of their past.

• Su Qingyun thanked Su Bai for restoring True Person Yun He, and Su Bai left to move the Greater Realm beside the Human Realm.
• Su Qingyun escorted True Person Yun He through the transformed Azure Cloud Sect and explained how it had grown under his secret care.
• The current sect master, Chen Wen, recognized his former teacher True Person Yun He and knelt to greet him.
• Su Qingyun brought True Person Yun He to the preserved former sect grounds, where Yun He revisited his old cave abode and its familiar belongings.

Su Qingyun left the Greater Realm with Su Bai and arrived in the new Human Realm, where he found the sincere and welcoming Heavenly Dao Sect he had long yearned for. At the Heavenly Dao Main Hall, he met a sword-bearing young man who introduced himself as Wu Wushuang.

• True Person Yun He declined Su Qingyun's offer to see a greater world and chose to remain teaching at Azure Cloud Sect.
• Su Qingyun visited the ruined temple in Azure Cloud Town where his story had begun.
• Su Bai brought Su Qingyun to the new Human Realm and showed him Heavenly Dao Mountain and the Heavenly Dao Sect.
• Su Qingyun saw disciples helping and caring for one another, and began to feel that the sect could be his home.
• Su Bai led Su Qingyun into the Heavenly Dao Main Hall to meet his senior brothers and sisters.
• A sword-bearing young man introduced himself to Su Qingyun as Wu Wushuang.

Su Qingyun discovered that Wu Wushuang, whose name he had borrowed, was his senior brother and had chosen not to expose him. As other senior disciples emerged, Su Qingyun realized his mysterious master had also trained the Grass-Biting Youth he had fought on the Heaven's Pride Battlefield.

• Su Qingyun recognized Wu Wushuang as the Heavenly Dao Ranking's top genius and understood that his master had known about his borrowed identity without exposing him.
• Wu Wushuang welcomed Su Qingyun warmly, leaving him too overwhelmed to apologize or express his gratitude.
• Wu Wushuang called the disciples hiding behind the screen to come out and spare Junior Brother Qingyun further embarrassment.
• The Grass-Biting Youth emerged and teased Wu Wushuang for interrupting Su Qingyun's emotional moment.
• Su Qingyun recognized the Grass-Biting Youth as his former Heaven's Pride Battlefield opponent and realized that the youth's master and his own master were the same person.

Su Qingyun learned that the Heavenly Dao Ranking’s mysterious thirteen were all disciples of Su Bai and welcomed him as their fourteenth family member. As Su Qingyun found a home among them, Su Bai looked toward the Human Realm and prepared to raise its power with fourteen Sacred Emperors.

• Xiao Yan, Zhuge Feng, Xiao Lingxi, Ye Qingyao, Su Ling'er, and the other disciples introduced themselves to Su Qingyun as his senior brothers and sisters.
• Su Qingyun realized that twelve of the mysterious thirteen—including the top figures on the Heavenly Dao Ranking—were his fellow disciples, with Jiuyue greeting him as his martial niece.
• Zhuge Feng welcomed Su Qingyun as the Heavenly Dao Sect’s fourteenth true disciple, and Wu Wushuang and Xiao Yan shared warm words with him.
• Su Qingyun tearfully welcomed his new family, and the thirteen disciples returned his salute.
• Su Bai turned his attention toward the Human Realm as his Second True Self transformed into several figures, and he declared that the Human Realm would have fourteen Sacred Emperors.

The Heaven's Pride Tournament gathered powerful figures and geniuses from across the Eternal Immortal Realm as major factions arrived at the battlefield. The Nine Heaven Realm Lords appeared together, heralding the tournament's most formidable gathering yet.

• Experts filled the Heaven's Pride Battlefield and discussed Su Qingyun, Di Cang, and the Taboo existences said to stand behind the Heavenly Dao Ranking's mysterious geniuses.
• The Blood Moon Immortal Sect arrived, led by the Fifth-Epoch King Blood Moon Ancestor, with the defeated Li Wujin among its ranks.
• The Purple Clan and Golden Clan arrived with their Fifth-Epoch King ancestors and young geniuses, including Violet and the Little War King.
• Old Man Tianji arrived with Ji Tianji and warned that the gathering would bring a great upheaval.
• Nine blazing figures emerged from different directions, revealing the arrival of the Celestial Court's Nine Heaven Realm Lords.

The Celestial Court assembled its Heaven Realm Lords and the Eighth Legion to preside over the Heaven’s Pride Tournament, revealing the Qiankun Heaven Realm Lord as the new Eighth Divine General. As the tournament was about to begin, Su Qingyun arrived with the Azure Mountain Saint Emperor, who introduced himself as the Human Realm’s Fourteenth Sequence.

• Nine of the Celestial Court’s Heaven Realm Lords arrived at the Heaven’s Pride Battlefield, prompting speculation about the missing tenth lord.
• The Eighth Legion appeared with ten million Heavenly Soldiers and a hundred Epoch King generals, who welcomed the new Eighth Divine General.
• The Qiankun Heaven Realm Lord emerged and announced that, by order of the First Divine General, he would preside over the tournament.
• The Eighth Divine General spoke of the Heavenly Dao Ranking prodigies, including Wu Wushuang, and wondered how many of the mysterious thirteen would attend.
• Su Qingyun arrived with an unfamiliar azure-robed man, who introduced himself as the Azure Mountain Saint Emperor, the Human Realm’s Fourteenth Sequence.

The Azure Mountain Saint Emperor and Su Qingyun arrived at the Heaven's Pride Battlefield as the Eighth Divine General proclaimed his new authority. The Celestial Court army's overwhelming pressure failed to affect the two, leaving the Nine Heaven Realm Lords wary while the Eighth Divine General remained confident.

• The Azure Mountain Saint Emperor arrived with Su Qingyun, and the assembled powers wondered about his Human Realm and Fourteenth Sequence titles.
• The Nine Heaven Realm Lords realized they could not sense the Azure Mountain Saint Emperor's strength and grew grave.
• The Eighth Divine General recalled accepting his appointment to gain the authority and prestige he had long coveted.
• The Eighth Divine General and his ten million Heavenly Soldiers and hundred Heavenly Generals unleashed their combined pressure on the Azure Mountain Saint Emperor and Su Qingyun.
• The pressure dissolved against an invisible barrier around the two men, but the Eighth Divine General dismissed the Azure Mountain Saint Emperor as beneath him.

At the Heaven’s Pride Tournament, the Eighth Divine General tried to force the Azure Mountain Saint Emperor to apologize, then attacked him when he refused. The Azure Mountain Saint Emperor revealed himself as a Taboo being, leaving the gathered factions stunned by the Human Realm’s possible strength.

• The Eighth Divine General dismissed the Human Realm and demanded that the Azure Mountain Saint Emperor apologize for disrespecting him.
• The Azure Mountain Saint Emperor asked whether the Eighth Divine General was worthy of an apology.
• The enraged Eighth Divine General attacked the Azure Mountain Saint Emperor with his golden divine sword.
• The Azure Mountain Saint Emperor released Taboo-level pressure and sent the Eighth Divine General crashing to the ground without moving.
• The gathered powerful figures realized the Azure Mountain Saint Emperor was a Taboo and wondered how many Taboo beings the Human Realm possessed.

The Human Realm’s Fourteenth Sequence was revealed as a Taboo being, frightening the rulers of the Eternal Immortal Realm and leaving the Eighth Divine General helpless. As the battlefield reeled from the revelation, the Celestial Court’s Seventh Divine General, the God of Slaughter, arrived.

• The Blood Moon Ancestor, the Purple Clan Ancestor, and Old Man Tianji reacted with alarm to the Human Realm’s Fourteenth Sequence and its veiled origins.
• The Eighth Divine General lay motionless, consumed by humiliation and fear after being blasted away by a Taboo being.
• A blood-red warhorse carrying Fifth-Epoch pressure appeared through a rift and galloped toward the Heaven’s Pride Battlefield.
• Old Man Tianji identified its rider as the Celestial Court’s Seventh Divine General, the Overlord Blade Divine General, famed as the God of Slaughter.

The Seventh Divine General, Tyrant Blade, challenged the Azure Mountain Saint Emperor and tested him with his warhorse’s devastating neigh. Another Human Realm Taboo arrived through the Mountains and Rivers State-Society Diagram and introduced himself as the River-Calming Saint Emperor, the Human Realm’s Thirteenth Sequence.

• Tyrant Blade entered the Heaven's Pride Battlefield, rebuked the fallen Eighth Divine General, and challenged the Azure Mountain Saint Emperor as the Human Realm’s Fourteenth Sequence.
• Tyrant Blade’s warhorse unleashed a blood-red sound wave at the Azure Mountain Saint Emperor, but it vanished before reaching him.
• A beautiful world appeared across the sky as the Mountains and Rivers State-Society Diagram opened, and the Grass-Biting Youth emerged with an azure-robed middle-aged man.
• The azure-robed man joined the Azure Mountain Saint Emperor and revealed that he was the River-Calming Saint Emperor, the Human Realm’s Thirteenth Sequence.

River-Calming Saint Emperor, the Human Realm’s Thirteenth Sequence, revealed the overwhelming power of the Mountains and Rivers State-Society Diagram by defeating the Celestial Court’s Seventh Divine General, Tyrant Blade. Tyrant Blade was left wounded and his warhorse was destroyed, while the assembled cultivators realized the Human Realm had arrived as a formidable power.

• Blood Moon Ancestor and the assembled cultivators realized that the Human Realm’s Thirteenth and Fourteenth Sequences were Taboos and speculated about the power of its sect master.
• Tyrant Blade challenged River-Calming Saint Emperor, unwilling to retreat and risk disgracing the Celestial Court.
• River-Calming Saint Emperor opened the Mountains and Rivers State-Society Diagram, which swallowed Tyrant Blade’s first blade attack without a ripple.
• Tyrant Blade unleashed his strongest strike, World Annihilation, but the diagram swallowed it and sent its power back at him.
• River-Calming Saint Emperor used Mountain-River Suppression to wound Tyrant Blade and cleave his blood-red warhorse apart.

The River-Calming Saint Emperor defeated the Seventh Divine General with one move, convincing the Celestial Court to retreat. Su Bai revealed that he had used clones and the Way of Deception to fabricate the Human Realm’s strength and buy it time to grow, while the battlefield turned its attention to the Grass-Biting Youth’s identity.

• The River-Calming Saint Emperor defeated the Seventh Divine General, then withdrew after an unseen Human Realm powerhouse told him to end the contest.
• The Seventh Divine General accepted that he could not challenge the Human Realm and retreated, calculating that it had revealed at least six Taboo existences.
• Su Bai watched from Heavenly Dao Mountain and revealed that the River-Calming Saint Emperor was his clone and the Azure Mountain Saint Emperor was his Second True Self.
• Su Bai explained that he had fabricated the Human Realm’s powerful figures through disguise and deception to deter the Celestial Court while the Human Realm grew stronger.
• The confrontation ended, and the crowd debated whether the Grass-Biting Youth was Wu Wushuang or Jiuyue as the new Eighth Divine General grimaced unnoticed.

After being humiliated by the Human Realm and watching the Seventh Divine General lose, the Eighth Divine General suppressed his rage and opened the Heaven's Pride Gathering. He declared it the Eternal Prodigy Contest and officially began the tournament.

• The Eighth Divine General returned to his seat, hiding his fury and shame after the Human Realm defeated him and the Seventh Divine General.
• He vowed to repay the Human Realm after the Heaven's Pride Tournament, when the Celestial Court's will descended and its lords made their move.
• The Eighth Divine General ordered the crowd to be silent and announced that the gathering would bring together prodigies across all ages.
• The crowd erupted with excitement at the declaration of the Eternal Prodigy Contest.
• The Eighth Divine General officially began the Heaven's Pride Gathering.